Kanazawa

[ kah-nah-zah-wah ]

noun

1. a seaport on W Honshu, in central Japan.

Kanazawa

/ ˌkænəˈzɑːwə /

noun

1. a port in central Japan, on W Honshu: textile and porcelain industries. Pop: 439 892 (2002 est)

Example Sentences

“The color scheme of the wig indicates the dating from the Late Period and the Ptolemaic Period, roughly 713 B.C. to 30 B.C.,” said Nozomu Kawai, an archaeologist at Kanazawa University in Japan and the expedition leader.

From New York Times

Minamidani has already gotten together with about a dozen others in Wajima to rent a place in nearby Kanazawa city, relatively unscathed by the quakes, to restart their fish businesses together.

From Seattle Times

In the large cities of Toyama and Kanazawa, life is already returning to some kind of normalcy.

From BBC

A video posted to social media showed leaks in the ceiling at a train station in Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture, and puddles of water collecting on the ground.

From Washington Times

The BBC's former Japan correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes - who was reporting from Taiwan - said several hundred metres of the main expressway between the cities of Toyama and Kanazawa had been ripped apart by a landslide.

From BBC